In July 1985, seven industry veterans came together in the
den of Dr. Irwin Jacobs’ San Diego home to discuss an idea. Those visionaries
Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Jacobs,
Andrew Viterbi and Harvey White decided they wanted to build “Quality
Communications” and outlined a plan that has evolved into one of the
telecommunications industry’s greatest start-up success stories Qualcomm
Incorporated.